#hallah

[spinnychaircirclecasting]

granny dancing with a loaf of bread is my final form

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), 'Hallah Onion', 2024

[salderi]

Fattah Hallah Abdel
1970
Symbolist painter

[phayz]

[jewishrizahawkeye]

starting season 7 of 911 and the fact that angela basset talked about another actress being nominated for a best supporting actress oscar and not winning feels just a little to on the nose

[autistic-katara]

dont ask me why but W should be pronounced “Wee” not “Double You”

[circusgoth-dotcom]

ahh i didn't make it to christmas without hearing "all i want for christmas is you" in public

[bobemajses]

Hallah cover, Central Europe, 19th century

[imasradiantasthesun]

District 12 Family Trees

Here are some family trees I made for my thg fic holding bright! I include a good amount of worldbuilding and fleshing out of some side characters (aka Bristel, Thom, Leevy, and Delly) in it, so I thought hey might as well draw some trees to help clarify my thinking. First, some notes on the structure:

The numbers in brackets are the characters' ages at the time of the Reaping for the 74th Hunger Games. I didn't feel like assigning specific birthdays for everyone, hence just the ages lol. Some characters' ages differ from canon in my fic: Katniss, Peeta, Delly, and Madge are all 18, Prim is 13, and Rory is 12

My use of "clan" here is super arbitrary, it doesn't actually mean anything lol

Names in quotation marks are nicknames/what they go by

Plenty of people in the older generations are dead, again I just didn't feel like specifying it unless it's relevant

Some notes on my decision-making in general:

I accidentally made Katniss and Peeta's maternal grandmothers have the same maiden names please ignore that lmao they are NOT related closely At All, it's a normal amount of distance lol

Ashwin is supposed to be older than Jubilee, not younger!! and Carson is supposed to be younger than River and Rylee (who are twins)!!!

Some of the names chosen for some Seam characters are Indian names, because I headcanon that people from the Seam can be a mix of a ton of different stuff, including South Asian

The idea that Mrs Everdeen's first name is Alyssum (Alys for short) comes from Mejhiren's fic When the Moon Fell in Love with the Sun

I continued the bread theme for Mellark names lol. Mr Mellark's first name is Nick, from pumpernickel. I also once read a fic where Peeta is of Jewish descent, which I really liked, so some of the breads are of Jewish origin: Hal is from challah (which can also be written as hallah), and Bab is from babka

In Holding Bright (which is an au, hence the variety of small changes I have made to canon lol) the Reaping takes place on June 1st (instead of the canonical July 4th), and it's also canon that the Games start exactly one week after the Reaping, so therefore in HB they always start on June 8th. Therefore, the teenaged deaths set after June 1st -- Glory Salsbury, Maysilee Donner, and Ridge Littlefield -- were all in the Games.

As explained in chapter 9 of Holding Bright, Ezra and Petunia Rainwater started a tradition of giving their kids long ass floral names lol. Their first child was relatively spared, with the name Foxglove, though he still went by Fox; their second child, Devil-in-a-Bush (or just Dev) fell in love with a woman who also just so happened to have a super long floral name, Queen Anne's Lace (though she went by Lace). All of Fox's descendants were spared from this naming tradition, to the point where his daughter, Hazelle, gave all of her children only four-letter names. Meanwhile, Dev's descendants got the longest names ever lmao: Chrysanthemum had five children: Morning Glory, Lily-of-the-Valley (aka Leevy), Stairway to Heaven, May Night Salvia, and Forget-Me-Not.

I have a headcanon that in Town they tend to give their children middle names, while in the Seam they don't (why? I don't know <3). In Town middle names came into use because they wanted to honor loved ones who have passed away, but because of the Games and all that it's considered bad luck to give your child the same first name as a deceased loved one

However, because I'm lazy I only wrote out the middle names for the youngest generation because I didn't want to come up with middle names for every single Merchant character lol

Katniss and Prim have middle names because their mother is from Town. Madge's middle name comes from Maysilee, just like Katniss's

I'm going with the popular headcanon that Katniss is indirectly related to Lucy Gray through Maude Ivory. Katniss's father's name follows the same conventions as those of the Covey (name from a ballad + a color). I had originally planned for people to only really know Mr Everdeen as Jet, hence why the family tree says Gordon Jet "Jet" Everdeen, but I have decided against that!! he went by Gordon Jet!!!

The first part of Mr Everdeen's name comes from the Scottish ballad Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie, in which the protagonist, Jeannie, is in love with a poor man named Auchanachie Gordon. However, despite Jeannie's resistance, she is married off by her parents to the wealthy Lord Salton/Saltoun; Jeannie then dies of a broken heart before Auchanachie Gordon returns and also dies. I thought Gordon is a fitting name, considering that Mrs Everdeen left her life in Town, where the wealthier Mr Mellark was in love with her, to marry the poorer Mr Everdeen

The second part of Mr Everdeen's name, Jet, comes from the color jet black; jet is also a type of coal

Some allusions to another canon character + my minor OCs:

Rooba is the name of the butcher in canon, so here she is Delly's aunt

Madge's maternal grandmother, Magnolia, has the maiden name Blackwell. She is distantly related to Maggie Blackwell, the carpenter's daughter who went missing about a decade ago

Thom’s maternal grandmother, Nomi Goodwin, was originally from Town

Bristel's mother, Juniper, passed away from complications at childbirth

Gale's maternal grandmother, Anika, has the maiden name Reeves. Gale is second cousins with Sparrow Reeves, the female tribute from 12 in the 68th Games who made a lasting impact on her district due to the brutality of her death

River & Rylee Ludlow are the 17-year-old twins who tend to pick on Madge a bit. No wonder they're related to Mrs Mellark...

Mrs Mellark's brother, Noah, died in the Games. Her other brother, Elijah, took over the apothecary shop from the Stewards after Alys ran away to be with Gordon Jet

Ivy Fairweather is the Undersees' housekeeper, usually referred to in HB as Mrs Fairweather. She and her husband probably have a ton of kids, but I just didn't feel like writing them all out lol. Ivy's maiden name is Claymore, which is also the last name of another OC, Hetty Claymore, who mysteriously died; Ivy is Hetty's like second cousin whatever-times-removed or something (aka practically a distant aunt)

[haggishlyhagging]

The religious historian and folklorist Chava Weissler, who has studied the extensive Yiddish devotional literature written for and by women, has uncovered evidence of the hidden voices of women in a variety of expressions. In particular, she found in 17th- and 18th-century collections of tkhines—prayers usually recited by women in the home evidence of efforts at upgrading women's religious significance. In a commandment for women's observance, "taking hallah," separating portions of the bread dough, the prayer compares the acting out of this ritual to the service performed by the high priest which caused sins to be forgiven. The woman prays: ". . . so also may my sins be forgiven with this. May this mizvah [good deed] of the hallah [making of the holiday bread] be accounted as if I had given the tithe." Thus she associates herself with the ancient biblical tradition of tithes and with the high priest. In the tkhine for candle lighting in the same collection the woman prays that her "'mizvah' of the candle lights be accepted like the mizvah of the high priests who kindled the lights in the dear Temple."

In their domestic prayers which flowed from the mundane activities of wives and mothers, Jewish women expressed their connectedness with the sacred and ancient traditions, which many of them came to know only by oral transmission. In a number of the prayers to be recited during the domestic ritual of preparing the candles for Yom Kippur, the women appealed not only to the patriarchs, but also to the matriarchs, Sarah, Rebecca and Rachel. They did so with an important difference: the patriarchs were mentioned formulaically, as passive recipients of God's aid, while the matriarchs were described as acting to save their children and therefore were appealed to as advocates. The prayers affirmed and celebrated the women's power as mothers to save the people of Israel.

-Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness

[boschlowtxt]

(269/1000) Hallah nahulog!

Translation: Oh [they] fell!

[wally-b-feed]

[pdeprincess]

Fattah Hallah

[milfbro]

really fucking hard to study the contemporary history of Syria with that "boing boing boing boing Souryia! Boing boing boing boing Hala Hallah!' playing on loop in my head like it's driving me insane

[royallygray]

I decided that it was art time

@periwinklepaint scar braiding Joel's hair

it's not colored since like. I drew this in like 20 mins and I gotta go to bed like two hours ago but! art

Joel has flowers in his hair

also what I wrote on here

1) Joel: Scar! Chill! I still want hair in my scalp, dammit!

2) Scar: Sorry Joel! 😊

3) legs be legging

4) how to draw side profile of criss cross

I drew the other knee it looks better

5) Scar's hair has already been braided and he wants to mess with Joel

also scars hair looks like hallah bread and it looks very tasty

[thgfanfictionlibrary]

Hey not sure if requests for a fic list is on but can you make one of a genderswap or gender reversal fics? (Like Peeta and Katniss are both swapped or only one of them is) I kinda want to read some of those fics since idk the change seems cool and I haven't really found any of them.

Hello Anon!

Yes, I do take list requests! Below are some genderswap/cisswap fics that I could locate. Hope these are new for you!

A Soul in Any Other Body (Would Love as Loyally)-midnighteverlark (ao3) Summary: The Capitol never hijacked Peeta. Instead, they warped his identity in a different way: they made his body female, so that he wouldn't be recognized by the rebels and therefore couldn't act as a symbol or leader to them. Katniss only ever wanted Peeta back. Who is she to complain what form he came back in? After all, a body is a body. He's still Peeta, and he still loves her. At Least He Knows You Exist-gitta (ao3) Summary: "She knew she was staring at Kale, throughout the train ride. Kale was inside his own head. He didn’t notice her, something that she was pathetically used to. He must have known she existed, though. That was something of a comfort, she supposed. The boy she was in love with knew she existed…because he was going to be forced to kill her." Cloudy Days and Sun Rays-universesalternating (ao3) Summary: THG AU: Katniss and Gale win the 73rd Hunger Games. When Prim is reaped for the 74th Hunger Games, Peeta Mellark volunteers in her place. [Everlark fic where Peeta is a cis female.] Not-catty_the_spy (ao3) Summary: Whether they’re Katniss and Peeta or Kale and Persimmon, these star-crossed lovers from District Twelve still have to make it through the Hunger Games. Of Arrows and Burnt Bread-sadbrowngirlpoetry (ao3) Summary: Halle Mellark is in love with Robin Everdeen who is best friends with Gayle Hawthorne, and that complicates matters. Then the Games happen, and that changes them entirely. AU series of interconnected one-shots. Genderswap rewrite of The Hunger Games. Photosynthesis-TheDarkRat (ao3) Summary: Burdock and Aster have more years between them. It's Aster's first Reaping Day, it's Burdock's last. Hallah is still in love with those Seam-dark eyes and bird-stopping singing voice. Silver Lining-GirlAlchemist (ao3) Summary: When memories haunt you and your brain becomes your own worst enemy, what hope is there left for respite? Sometimes, the worst circumstances can have a bright silver lining. It all comes down to finding your ray of sunshine in the stifling darkness. Upside-Down Cake-aimmyarrowshigh (ao3) Summary: How a boy from the Seam and the baker's daughter healed old wounds, baked bread, and found poison berries in District Twelve.

There are many role reversal fics as well where it is Seam!peeta and Merchant!katniss but I stuck with actual gender reversal/swaps.

As always, feel free to shoot me an ask, comment, or request!